A Penang-based activist has described the Education Ministry's warning to the Methodist Girls School as a "disrespect and a threat" to freedom of religion in this country.

Civil society activist K Sudhagaran Stanley (photo, above) urged the ministry to be careful in issuing statements about the alleged reciting of Christian prayer in the school.

Stanley said the ministry should not be used by extremist or fanatical Muslim groups to pursue their own agenda...